ISME 2021: Practical Rationality and Human Difference
The 14th Annual Conference of the International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry
Organized in collaboration with the Department of Literature, Philosophy, and Communication at the University of Bergamo
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All times are given in the local time in Bergamo, Italy (Central European Summer Time = UTC + 2). Clicking on the times listed will provide the start time for each session in your local time zone.
Monday, July 12
18:00-19:30 | Graduate Student Workshop (Graduate meeting room)
Tuesday, July 13
15:00-15:15 | Greetings from the academic authorities (Room 1)
15:15-16:15 | Keynote address: Prof. Paolo Pagani, “Notes on the Human Difference” (Room 1)
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The Gift of Literature
(Room 1)
“Literature and the Education of Practical Reason”
(J. Corrêa Monteiro)
“Giving and Receiving in Light of Human Difference”
(D. Simoncelli)
Practices
(Room 2)
“The Goods of Design”
(A. Guersenzvaig)
“Is Family a MacIntyrean ‘practice’?”
(J. Pocock)
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Continental Philosophy & Political Religions
(Room 1)
“MacIntyre, Marx and the ‘Political Religions’: Movements towards ‘the Good’”
(P. McMylor)
“Shared Animality and Vulnerability Within and Beyond Species: The Case of Alasdair MacIntyre and Jacques Derrida”
(M. Eskelinen)
“The 'Enriched' Animal. MacIntyre in Dialogue with the German Philosophical Anthropology”
(M. Amori)
Traditions
(Room 2)
“MacIntyre’s Anthropological Vulnerability Between Aquinas and E.F. Kittay”
(M. Damonte)
“Rational Animal Communication and Psycholinguistics”
(S. Peña)
“Practical Reasoning as Citizens: On the Shifting Conditions of Public Discourse”
(P. Monti)
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19:30-20:00 | Learning From MacIntyre book launch (click here to join)
Wednesday, July 14
15:00-15:45 | “MacIntyre in Italy.” A panel discussion with C. Daraio, S. Maletta, and M. Rocchi (Room 1)
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Liberalism
(Room 1)
“‘A Society of Strangers’: MacIntyre and Taylor on Liberalism and the Concrete Needs of Practical Reasoning”
(M.J. O’Neill)
“Practical Reason at Work”
(G. Cavallo)
“A Sketch of Dialectical Engagement between Natural Law Tradition and Public Reason Liberalism”
(J. Baroš)
Human Nature
(Room 2)
“MacIntyre vs. Mutants, Aliens and the Great Red Dragon”
(G. McCracken)
“A. MacIntyre and the Moral Imperative of Ecological Responsibility”
(J. Mundua)
“Aristotelian Ethics and Darwinian Biology: Perspectives on Human Nature”
(D. Mazzola)
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Dissent
(Room 1)
“Ideology Critique and the Neo-Aristotelian Account of Practical Reason: towards a Dialogue”
(E. Mardosas)
“Is Rortyan Irony Defensible?”
(S. Talanker)
Aristotle
(Room 2)
“Intersubjectivity Reconsidered: An Aristotelian Critique of MacIntyre’s Notion of Friendship, Love and Other-Dependency”
(E. Leontsini)
“Was Aristotle a Political Realist?”
(F. Hörcher)
“Misreading Aristotle: the Case of the Best Constitution”
(A. Bielskis)
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19:30-20:30 | Annual General Meeting (Room 1)
Thursday, July 15
15:00-16:00 | Keynote address: Prof. Antonio Allegra, “A Common Space? Practical Rationality, the Public Sphere and the Dangers of Transhumanism” (Room 1)
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Law & Natural Law
(Room 1)
“Natural Law, the Common Good, and Economics: A Difficulty for Thomists”
(J. Macias)
“MacIntyre, Practical Reason and Law”
(G. Bombelli)
“Disputed Natural Law: MacIntyre’s Account on Natural Law as a Philosophical and Historiographical Issue”
(R. Saccenti)
Virtues
(Room 2)
“Virtues of the Extended Mind: Technological Augmentation and Human Practice”
(P. Machura)
“Interpretation as Skill”
(T. Darnold)
“‘Flourishing’ After MacIntyre: Metaphysics of Human Persons and Virtue Theory”
(G. Cogliandro)
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Emotions & Desires I
(Room 1)
“Emotional Reasoning: How Emotions Play a Role in Practical Reasoning”
(B. Korkut Raptis)
“Narrative as an Eminently Human Key for Understanding Desire and Its Role in Practical Reasoning”
(S. Hernandez)
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Emotions & Desires II
(Room 1)
“Practical Rationality and the Discipline of Desires”
(O. Lazrak)
“Is Moral Skepticism Inevitable? An Inquiry on Desires, Goods and Moral Diversity in Dialogue with Charles Taylor and Alasdair MacIntyre”
(A. Gerolin)